10 Officers Shot as Riots Worsen in French Cities

NYTIMES ^ | 11/07/05 | CRAIG S. SMITH

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Some days ya just have to say WTF and create a few limpin gimps to remind em of the Allah Fubar reality.

Bump to that. You made me smile. Go Freeper class of 98'! France needs to post some sniper teams pronto - though I would have picked something a little larger than .22 - make them lose the bottom part of the leg altogether.

[speedy]

I have to admit I enjoy the updates on this story. They have it coming.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Sure wouldn't be the gubment shootin' them.

It's happened in milder situations. Kent State, 1960s, 4 students shot dead. Ruby Ridge. Waco.

Don't the French have the equivalent of our National Guard, or military snipers, or whatever? That's what I think is needed here. They've let this escalate out of control, and I can't think of what else would be able to stop it. Tear gas, mace, bullets - are they doing ANYTHING?

[kennedy]

Rioters fired shotguns at the police

How is that possible? France has strict gun control.

[NRA2BFree]

"This is just the beginning," said Moussa Diallo, 22, a tall, unemployed French-African man in Clichy-sous-Bois, the working-class Parisian suburb where the violence started Oct. 27. "It's not going to end until there are two policemen dead."

Maybe they could trade for a few politicians. They police are by far worth more than politicians are.

[Peace will be here soon]

"Dumbasses. Or should I say, "Dumas"?"

Hey, that name hits close to home. My mother carries that last name , by her second marriage.

The guy she married was as you state though. It was a good day when he hit the road and never returned.

[HiTech RedNeck]

when two dumbasses run to hide near a transformer and get electrocuted

I've never seen the exact story on this, but if French electrical utility transformer installations are anything like American ones, there will be a high fence around them marked with warning signs. There would have to be an earnest attempt at a Darwin award to get inside.

[Bob Eimiller]

Chirac finally speaks out on this days after it begins.

He's a hero to the American left on Iraq, yet instead of taking decisive action or even pulling the usual liberal 'empathy' rhetoric card in these riots he hides until he realizes this isn't just going to go away. Then, he talks tough while his police are being used for target practice.

He is a COWARD.

Wouldn't it be a hoot to see Jacques Chirac go the way of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu? Couldn't you just see the corrupt french coward sobbing hysterically...

hmmmm would fit him perfectly.

[Army Air Corps]

Oddly enough, the caption is in Spanish:

"6 de noviembre de 2005, 04:27 PM Policías antimotines patrullan el distrito Le Mirail de Toulouse, al suroeste de Francia, el domingo 6 de noviembre de 2005. (FOTO AP/Remy Gabalda)"

Translation:

6 November 2005, 04;27 PM anti-riot police in the Le Mirail district of Tolouse, in the southeast of France, Sunday, 6 November 2005.

[baltoga]

I think "working class" refers to the type of workers. In either case, the riots definitely caught me by surprise. If France and Germany are models for socialism, then it has failed.

The Washington Post captured what the rioters people want.

"We want the American dream!!!"

[Army Air Corps]

Sorry, I left-out a word: November 2005, 04;27 PM anti-riot police patrol in the Le Mirail district of Tolouse, in the southeast of France, Sunday, 6 November 2005.

[Hodar]

They know how to have commandos sweep the streets with automatic weapons.....in African countries.

Who is the 'They' you are referring to? The French FOREIGN Legion may have the testicular fortitude to see this thing through; but not the Frogs.

The Frogs are the ones who paid Millions to Arafat to keep his terrorism out of Paris, who threatened to block any meaningful sanctions against Saddam, who cut and run (leaving us in the lurch) for both Korea and Vietnam. These same 'Allies' sold Saddam Exocet missles, made hundreds of Millions on the Oil for Food Scandal, and then provided SAddam's miliatry with intelligence during our military actions. These are the same people who used US military (placed under UN control by Clinton) as bait during the Haiti exercises.

Funny, I can bear France's discomfort with great fortitutde.

[austinaero]

Daly allows guns on Chicago? Hmm, he didn't used to, only let the gangs have them.

[RegulatorCountry]

"Wouldn't it be a hoot to see Jacques Chirac go the way of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu?"

I can't say that it would be. Seeing their cold, dead eyes on the national news, on Christmas Day of all days, made me ill, no matter how richly they deserved it. That image jumped out at me in the way that the images from Waco jumped out ... world-altering, and likely not in a good way.

[GOPJ]

This is only the beginning; and I can honestly say that I really don't care who wins. One enemy is forthright in his hatred of us; the other is two-faced.

In a sad reality, these two groups deserve each other...

[Peace will be here soon]

"the caption is in Spanish"


That was Spanish?... Then I don`t know Spanish from spit either. : )

[The KG9 Kid]

"... They know how to have commandos sweep the streets with automatic weapons.....in African countries.

But they prefer not to on their home soil. That would shatter their illusions."

That's a fitting reminder of the people killed at an anti-French protest in the Ivory Coast.

Good point.

[digger48]

Don't the French have the equivalent of our National Guard, or military snipers, or whatever? That's what I think is needed here. They've let this escalate out of control, and I can't think of what else would be able to stop it. Tear gas, mace, bullets - are they doing ANYTHING?

Did Chirac make any smart-ass statements about Hurricane Katrina?

[Venerable Bede]

From FoxNews.com:

"Rioters attacked us with baseball bats," said Philippe Jofres, a deputy fire chief, told France-2 television. "We were attacked with pick axes. It was war."

And, predictably, the French turned tail and ran. Truly a pathetic spectacle... a city run by liberals defeated by a handful of barely-armed thugs. Chirac is still "vowing" to restore order almost two weeks after the fact. It will probably happen when there are no cars left to burn or people to terrorize. The French people are just as bad, rationalizing this as a result of poverty and lack of opportunity, and not the result of a crippled immigration policy and a refusal to assimilate by the human infestation.

[austinaero]

Amen! And some follow Jesse "Shakedown" Jackson and slippery Al Sharpton method of claiming poverty and poor opportunities as an excuse to break the law.